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Current Events at the Samaritan Counseling Center

Workshops

The Marriage Tune-Up!
March 20, 2010
The Samaritan Counseling Center is offering this popular one-day workshop for couples who want to build or renew a positive connection and learn skills for managing conflict.

Dealing with Change and Transition (Without Falling Apart)
March 20, 2010
How do you experience and react to change personally and in your congregation? Attend this breakfast seminar and learn how to handle change using critical insight and new coping skills.

The When and What of Health Screening
April 17, 2010
It is important that each of us be health care advocates. In doing this we need to take advantage of the recommended preventive health screening through the ages and also promote them in our congregations. What are they and why are they recommended? What role does the church play in this?

The Samaritan Counseling Center and The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Spark Dialogue on Mental Illness With a Free Community Screening of:

MINDS ON THE EDGE: Facing Mental Illness
Tuesday March 23,7:00 to 9:30 pm

The Walking Together family violence prevention program at Samaritan Counseling Center is pleased to partner with seven community organizations and Millersville University to present:

Self Care U Conference:
An Interactive Learning Experience for Professionals Who Help Others

April 7, 2010: 6:30 pm - 8:45pm
April 8, 2010: 7:30 am - 4:00 pm

Self-care is one core competency of strong leadership. If you are a social worker, first responder, counselor, psychologist, nurse, advocate, case worker or a leader of nonprofit organization, don't miss this opportunity to learn about a variety of self-care options.

For more information and to register, to go Non-Profit Resource Network

Linda Crockett, Director of Walking Together, will offer a Circle of Life coaching workshop at Self Care U. For more information about joining a Circle group at Samaritan, click here.

Coaching
Mind-Body Life Coaching
In this mind-body life coaching group designed to support you in making a positive change in your life as you move into the New Year, we will use guided visualizations and journaling techniques to infuse our resolutions with energy and power, and help each other along the way.

Check back for upcoming dates!


2010 Pastoral Leadership Series:
Challenges of Congregational Ministry
The Samaritan Counseling Center is pleased to announce its 2010 Pastoral Leadership Series: The Whole Organizes the Parts: Leadership and the Congregation as a Family System. The series, open to any interested clergy person and professional church staff, consists of a quarterly breakfast at which a topic related to family systems is presented, followed by an opportunity to attend a three-session group the next month. The groups allow participants to explore a more in-depth understanding of the topic in an environment of collegial support and mutual learning, and include integrative work to help with practical application of the theory.

The Congregation as an Emotional System begins February 11, 2010.


Circle of Life
Circle of Life: A Group for Men and Women
Since ancient times, humans have gathered in sacred circle to support and inspire each other through life's challenges, crises and cycles of change.

The Circle supports you in improving any number of aspects of your life, including relationships, work, play, spirituality, and stress mastery.


Groups

Are You Talking to Me?
An Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills Group
Begins March 22, 2010

Good interpersonal skills help to maintain relationships. Some individuals struggle to balance their own needs with the needs of others. As a result, they often fluctuate between avoiding conflict completely and creating an intense confrontation. This educational group is for you if you would like to be more assertive, successfully deal with interpersonal conflict, maintain your relationships, and preserve self-respect.

For more information, please click here.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy Group
Ongoing Group
This weekly group engages members to create a supportive and empathic environment that fosters healing and problem-solving. A diversity of members with varied concerns, personalities and life experiences help one another by offering different perspectives.

For more information, click here.


 

Samaritan Counseling Center
1803 Oregon Pike
Lancaster, PA 17601
717-560-9969 · 1-800-400-7789
Fax 717-560-9553